The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-17
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Bones should be saved for fer

Bones should be saved for fer
filters.
Fowls viii eat a great deal of gram
uiated charcoal. As a preventive Of
disease it is invaluable.
To keep your bread moist keep a
lamp cloth over it all the time. Some
;hInk bread thus treated is more apt to
mold or smell bad, but such is not the
sase.-Honae and Farm.
With this system of high farming
and heavy manuring our land must in
crease in productiveness and advance
n value, while the effect of the slip
shod, or skimming process is the re-
Verse.-G0lde71 Rule.
Save your rose leaves, dry them
carefully and put them in wide
mOuthed jar with a few spices. Add
leaves from time to time, with sprink-
ling of saehet powders and cologne
water, and you viii have sweet and
spicy "rose jar. -
Rules for easy subjugation of Can
ada thistles are plentiful, but not prae-
tical. Every attempt to eradicate this
weed must be continued during the en-
tire season of growth, or it will fail al
most surely and all its cost will be
wasted.-C Cincinnati Times
Brown Bread.-One pint each of
Indian meal, one-half pint of wheat
-four, One-half cup of molasses, one
tablespoonful of salt, two-thirds cup of
yeast and one pint of hot water, mix,
let it rise, steam three or four hours.
and brown the top little in an oven.
Household.
Southern Fried Chicken.-Put in a
frying pan equal parts of lard and but
ter; roll the pieces of chicken in crack
er-dust and dip in egg; then dust
again; drop into the boiling fat and
fry brown. Mince parsley and put in
the gravy with a cup of cream.-Louis-
UilLe COurieT-JOur71dI
"A very simple test to ascertain
whether the air of any apartment con-
tains sewer gas is made by saturating
unglazed paper with solution of one
ounce pure lead acetate in half a pint
of rain water, let it partially dry, then
expose in the suspected air. The pres
ence of sewer gas in any considerable
quantity soon darkens OF blackens the
test paper.-N 7. Graphic.
The Lincoln are the largest breed
of sheep in the world. having, in some
instances attained dressed weight of
four hundred pounds. They yield a
beautiful fleece of lustrous wool about
ten inches in length, and weighing
from eight to fifteen pounds. They
are not popular in this country be-
cause they require too much care to
suit the ordinary farmer.-St. Louis
Republican.
Mashed Potatoes. sufficient
number of potatoes, peel and then crush
them with a potato masher. To
dozen large potatoes add one egg, well
beaten, tablespoonful of sugar and
cupful of cream or milk. Beat well
together with a heavy spoon and sift
through a colander into the dish they
are to be served in. Sitting thus adds
to the beauty of the tempting mass
Good Cheer.
Farmers in some sections of Penn
sylvania maintain the fertility of their
soils by applying one hundred and
sixty bushels of slaked lime to the acre
once in five years. 1t is said fields
which have been subjected to this treat
ment for the past one hundred years
are as productive now as when the ex-
pertinent was first tried. The applica-
ton depends for its value much upon
the original character of the soil
T17Clin1l0DOLiS .T02E7.97HL
When pullets are forced to lay
early, by stimulants or highly coneen-
trated food, it is an injury, as it taxes
the vitality. A pullet that is forced
will lay very small eggs for while,
and when she ceases, in order to rest,
she will not begin again as soon as
matured hen. She becomes prema-
turely old, and does not prove on an
average as profitable as when she is
gwen ample time to mature before be-
ginning to lay.-F'arTl, Field and Stock
man.